Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 11/29/2012 11:00:39 AM The warehouse and distribution center is under increasing pressure to reduce cost and increase margins. Recent Intermec research reveals that in ...
Tags: warehouse and distribution center, Inefficient workflows
Posted by Rick Lingle, Technical Editor -- Packaging Digest, 11/29/2012 4:04:27 PM The Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC), a project of sustainability nonprofit GreenBlue, is pleased to announce additional participants in the soft ...
Tags: SPC, How2Recycle on-package, How2Recycle Label, recycling labeling system
Jack Mans -- Packaging Digest, 12/3/2012 4:31:39 PM Endress+Hauser introduces the Liquiphant FailSafe FTL8x series of point level switches. The level switches have two relay outputs, a 4-20mA output that connects to a failsafe switching ...
Taipei,Oct.8,2012(CENS)--The global financial tsunami has shifted the worlda's financial center from Europe and the United States to Asia,hence motivating the Taiwanese government to encourage Taiwanese banks to explore the Asian market,as ...
Tags: Taipei, the global financial tsunami, Financial Supervisory Commission
Alacero announced that between January and October 2012,year over year trade flow between China and Latin America of steel containing products grows 15% Indirect trade between China and Latin America was 15%higher between January and ...
Tags: Alacero, trade flow, cars, commercial vehicles, steel
Reuters reported that Brazil's Vale, the world's top iron ore producer, has blamed a Guinean government U turn on rail and port links and shifting, unclear regulation for its decision to shelve the giant Simandou iron ore project. Vale ...
Tags: Brazil's Vale, iron ore, Guinean government U, shareholders
With advanced data management and visualisation solutions for the steel fabrication industry and AEC sector, AceCad Software is delighted to again participate in SteelFab 2013, January 14th to 17th 2013, Expo Centre, Sharjah, United Arab ...
Tags: steel, AceCad Software, steel fabrication machinery, engineering products
Visa Steel, which went into a corporate debt restructuring program 2 months ago, might try to bring in a strategic investor in its core long steel business. Mr Vishal Agarwal MD of Visa Steel said that "In the special steel business, we ...
Tags: Visa Steel, core long steel, steel business, raw material
Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 12/5/2012 3:45:13 AM U.S. demand for post-consumer recycled plastic is forecast to rise 6.5 percent per year to 3.5 billion pounds in 2016. Gains will be driven by a ...
Tags: plastic recycling, PET, HDPE, beverage bottles, thermoformed containers
Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 12/5/2012 3:03:55 AM The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice has announced that Ohio-based Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc., the ...
Tags: glass container, pollution control equipment, NOx, SO2
Posted by Rick Lingle, Technical Editor -- Packaging Digest, 12/5/2012 2:29:57 PM The World Packaging Organization (WPO) signed a cooperative agreement at the end of November 2012 with Ipack-Ima Spa to support and promote the exhibitions ...
Tags: WPO, Ipack-Ima Spa, packaging culture
Posted by Jenni Spinner, Senior Editor -- Packaging Digest, 12/4/2012 7:00:00 AM The Label and Packaging Materials division of Avery Dennison Corp. today launched a global Designer Showcase that features insights, examples and personal ...
Jack Mans -- Packaging Digest, 12/4/2012 10:16:30 AM Lenze Americas has expanded support to material handling operations ith its fully integrated energy efficient solution package comprised of DSD software, MF(multiple frequency) gear motor ...
Tags: DSD, Gear Boxes, Motec Inverter Drive, MF Three-Phase AC Geared Motors
Posted by Rick Lingle, Technical Editor -- Packaging Digest, 11/26/2012 10:04:01 AM As packaging professionals well know, the words "high-end packaging" and "short-run" typically do not appear in the same sentence. To achieve the highly ...
Tags: short-run packaging, high-end packaging, digital die-cutting
Posted by Rick Lingle, Technical Editor -- Packaging Digest, 12/3/2012 9:53:42 AM Endangered Species Chocolate, which donates 10 percent of its net profits to species and habitat conservation efforts, expects more than a 230 percent boost ...
Tags: Pack 401, Bosch machines, chocolate bars